oliver stone won his first oscar over 30 years ago. for his screen play, "midnight express." he has been turning heads every since with ground-breaking and controversial tunes. his latest film is savages. he is opinionated. about everything. movie, politics, life. i have some tough questions for him and i'm pretty sure he will have tough answers. oliver stone. welcome. i am excited about this, because i have been a huge fan of yours for a long time. i don't usually say that. it's an american thing to say, but we are british and we hide things. i have watched most every one of your movies. i like the provocative under current to them. i love the fact that you in your own life are as provocative. you don't really take prisoners, do you? >> no, i try to be a politician. i try to be diplomatic. i don't want to offend people and i don't look for fights because you know what they end up in, it's not pretty. what i am interested in is curious about the truth and i

don't want to run away from what i know. somebody says if you want to lead with a question and say i can't run from the truth, as least maybe they can phrase it better. >> if you google your name, almost everything that comes up on the first page says controversial. >> not really. that is a little bit jaj rate exaggerated. there is a body of work that stands up. >> do you mind that? >> yes, i do. because it comes and goes, you know. it's like the weather. it doesn't mean anything. it's the long-term implications. my work is, i think, good. you go back and look at the film a second and third time a few years later, you may say i don't know why everybody got so upset about that silly thing, but the truth is there's a movie with a dramatic core and great characters. it's fun. >> i was fascinated, and your father and mother sound like charismatic people, and you said both of them are slightly crazy

and mad, and which you have inherited but you say you have calmed down. they are divorced. you likened movies to the divorce process. is there a theme you see? >> that is clever to go there. i would rather talk about the beautiful blake lively. >> well -- >> my own life is, i have not hidden it. i have written about it, and i talked about it, and my parents were extremely colorful people, dramatic and strong, and my mom is still alive today. and probably watching. so you know, it was a wonderful story, and it did hurt. at 14 years old you go off to a boarding school, and you are english and you disappear and you lose because you are the only child that the family does separate, and then it was not long before i was in vietnam and a marine and all these things. i miss the family live and i am

trying to reconstitute one to some degree. >> what is your relationship with your mother now? she is in her 90s, right? >> that's right. >> your mom, has she been your biggest fan and critic over the years? >> she thinks so. >> i have an interesting relationship and on going one. it's contrairy. there are many difficulties. i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. families are difficult. >> what do you think you got from your parents, both of them? let's accentuate the positives. thank you, i got that streak from you. >> the good stuff? >> yeah. >> from mom, i got a great sense of love, emotion, affection. universal forgiveness. and my dad, i would say i got a sober intelligence, a sense of looking at things and not falling into the fashion, but thinking for yourself as much as possible. >> hard-working, passionate and

independent and slightly crazy. this is what everyone who has worked with us says working with you is like. >> that's nice. >> i don't think all of them are positives. >> i worked for the most part, 98% of them well, and it's been a rich life. people have brought enormous things to me because i have been open to them, not closed. >> which of all the actors you have worked with has been the best? >> kevin costner is different from anthony hopkins, they are like night and day but they are both extraordinary to work with, and tom cruise is as different as collin farrell, as night to day, but i enjoy both of them tremendously. >> charlie sheen? >> he was a young man when i worked with him on two films, and on both films, he was quite different. he was a dreamy quality in platoon that i loved, and in "wall street," it was more

cosmopolitan, definitely. >> when he had his mad period last year, and i know you are no longer that close to him. but what did you feel looking that guy who you worked with so closely before? >> i lost track charlie in the mid-80s -- >> i think he lost track in the mid-80s. >> i did see him four months ago on a reunion of "platoon" and he was delightful to everybody. he remembered everything, and we laughed about some of the incidents in the forest. >> who could out party who? you or charlie? at your peak? >> at that -- at my peak, we had fun in new york. i would have to say, charlie -- collin farrell can out party all of us. >> that's what i heard. i heard this about him. >> in the old days. >> all of you at your peak, who who would be the greatest guest would you have? >> robert downey was pretty

wild. so was julia lewis and wood harrelson, and tom sizemore. tommy lee jones, and they are fun. they were good drunks. it's great to party with them. most of them were fun. >> let's turn to "safages." >> welcome to the recession, boys. you should be grateful you have a product people still want. >> you say you don't mind if your envelope gets a little thin. >> you guys, you have a clean business. there is no problems. but there ain't no ben and john without dennis, so my envelope stays the same. >> it's a fascinating film. i watched it, not knowing what to expect. it's great acting in it and a great theme of these two hippy character brothers. they build this amazing thing, marijuana plant. and it's the nice end of the drugs industry, isn't it? they collide with the nasty end, and that's the vile drug end.

it goes horribly wrong. you have been no stranger to drugs and you spoke very vocally about it. what was your purpose of making the movie? what do you hope to achieve? all your movies have a purpose. >> it's a pretty heart-edged -- it's like writing a book. you said you didn't know what was going to happen next, and it's a wild ride and it's an improbable situation, because we don't know about the present day contemporary mauer yawn marijuana industry. and these growers are growing it simi legally, and they are selling it out of state and instate, which is legal, and the cartel, and in a hypothetical fiction, he wants to move in like a walmart would move in on niche business and take it over and partner with them and take over the techniques.

>> you have been to south america and you have been outspoken how they treat the drug war. what is the simplistic answer to the drug war? >> it's not going away. this war on drugs has gotten bigger since nixon. it has gotten huge. >> it has not worked -- >> the mexican economy would die without it, and it's bigger than tourism, and it's bigger than oil and remission from their mexican immigrants back to their countries. >> give them that importance -- what do you do, oliver? >> do you -- what do you do, given the importance like mexico's -- what do you do? >> if you declared -- if there were no war on drugs, the mexican economy would radically dry up. even the banks would dry up. it couldn't happen overnight. you would have to move in a direction to decriminalize it, first of all. in america, we are suffering greatly. not only do we have a huge dea with a huge budget, and we made

enemies and made them into narco states. as a results, our prisons too, 50% of our prison system in america is victimless crimes. people who never hurt anybody. they are in for marijuana and various charges that have nothing to do with punishment. it's a medical issue. i think we have to move to decriminalization and legallization. legalization. >> let's take a break and come back and talk about "savages," and politics, and maybe religion. >> we want to talk about the film. >> we will start with the film. i started with "savages" first. then got into -- [ bleep ] i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix.

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only save the paper, but that other malfunction called the usa. >> michael douglas, who just won for his role as gecko. >> do you ever wish you had not that particular scene, the greed is good scene? >> no, it's powerful. it's a movie, it works, and it still does. it sets up what is going on in our capitalism right now. >> the greed is good, a lot of people took it at face value, didn't they? >> yes, couldn't believe it. the vietnam movies, too, it doesn't mean there will be a change in society if it's successful. what happen is i couldn't believe it when i went back to do "wall street, money never sleeps," the numbers of hundreds of millions became billions of dollars in these corporations. wheeling and dealing without any -- without the ownership issue.

the banks were doing what gecko was doing in the '80s. they were buck here ins. >> who stops them? >> the crash stops them. >> nobody went to jail. >> there are some laws. the problem is, we are in other place. like the war on drugs. it's the same thing. we have gotten into a huge amount, nobody can figure out how to stop the hurricane. >> when you see the country $16 trillion in debt, and everyone squabbling over what some say is an unsubstantial resolution, what do you think? >> $16 trillion in debt means nothing to me, what means something to me is the unemployment figure. what we need do is get people working.

and we need to spend money in a good and positive productive infrastructure way, and not on the wars on drugs and wars in afghanistan and iraq, we need to make a war for our country's infrastructure, and also education, and climate control. >> you vaut in vietnam fought in vietnam. you have been to south america. saw the drug cartels. had lunch with one of the bare yoens himself. do you think it would help if policy makers in america experienced war? >> i do. i think it would be -- i think world war ii generation, the korean war, these people were in congress and makes a big difference because they know war. and when you don't, you start to be like a bit of a chicken hawk. a lot of these neoconservatives that have started these wars in the last 20 years have no war record except for rumsfeld. he was the only one. cheney, rove, bush. it's not an attractive portrait of people who can call for other people to suspend their lives. also, well, the whole issue of vietnam, you know, the whole --

lyndon johnson never raised taxes. and bush jr. never raised taxes during the iraq war. so, you know, the whole idea of how to fight a war is what's weird in this country. we have to learn that it's a national -- if we go to war, it's a serious thing. >> everyone's in it together. >> yeah, but we don't call it war, we call it a mini event. we put it on tv and it's an advertisement or something. >> what was it you learned about yourself when you were in vietnam? >> oh, first of all, i learned to survive, piers. that's the hardest thing of all. which is to say get smart. because most of the time we go into a situation. we're a bit dumb. we don't know exactly what it's like till it happens. when it happens, you learn fast. it's on the job training. so let's say i got more visceral. more visual. i think i was a writer in my head. after the war, more of a director could see things i hadn't seen before. i wanted to put things in visual terms as well. >> about the drug war, isn't it? i think your theme about war

generally throughout your movies is incredibly important actually. as someone who's watched them and enjoyed them and understood what you're trying to get at. i think you talking about the reality of war makes a big difference. you're one of the few who can actually talk from experience. >> i made three vietnam movies. i loved them all. they were "born on the fourth of july." "heaven and earth." about the vietnamese side of the equation. i also did "salvador." about the central american wars. people watched. they praised them and this and that. you know, when we went to iran and afghanistan -- iraq and afghanistan, where was the memory? you know? it's a bizarre thing, the american ability to forget. >> let's take a break. come back and talk "savages" and also probably the least savage person in the world, your wife. who has calmed you. >> everything but. you talk one clip of [ bleep ] interval -- [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people

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i like talking to you, ophelia. but let me remind you that if i had to, i wouldn't have a problem cutting both their throats. >> well, you'll never get them together. i'm the only one who can do that. >> come on. are you really bragging about that? there's something wrong with your love story, baby.

>> oliver stone's latest movie "savages." a couple of pot growers. stars selma hayek, blake lively, taylor kitsch and john travolta. there's touches of all sorts of other movies. a lot of sex. i got to say. lashings of sex >> that scene you just showed is a crucial moment because the two women, very strong in the movie, blake and selma, having a bit of a -- in the movie, blake is living with two men. >> yes. >> who she says as a young california beach girl, southern california, she says, i love both men. that's what selma's calling into question. this is an answer that you find in the end of the movie. where you know we deal with the issue of can people -- can three people live together equally. >> what do you think? >> i'm not going to give away the ending because that's a spoiler. >> what do you think? >> i think it's hard. >> impossible? >> have you tried it lately, piers?

>> i've never been tempted by blake lively. i may have to rethink things. >> the book is very graphic on that issue. >> it is graphic. what is your -- i mean, you found what seems to be true love. haven't you? >> that's nice of to you say that. >> how do you know? >> just from what you said about it. you talk in such a loving way about your third wife. she seems -- >> she's a lovely woman. >> a very extraordinary person. >> she's a lovely woman. it's been almost 15, 16 years. because our daughter's 16. so we've been, you know, we're there for her. different kind of relationship for me. less stormy. calm. she always remains to me absolutely beautiful everyday i see her. she's so gracious a person. >> you had this great quote. she comes from another place of graciousness, transparency and selflessness. that's why i love her.

>> yeah, sounds like florence nightingale. >> she comes from also a totally different world. a background of -- >> she's not in our reality. because of vietnam and various -- i love asia. i feel calm when i'm in asia. i feel that calmness coming from her. >> are you calmer now? >> as a result perhaps of her, yes. i'm older too. you got to slow down. your testosterone drops a bit. >> i can't imagine you slowing down. >> thank you, it's kind of you. takes a lot to do. untold history and "savages" in the same year. >> if you were describing yourself to somebody who had never heard anything about you, what would be the honest description? >> i'm equally astonished and disappointed about myself. >> why astonished? >> put it this way, i think this life is a mystery. it's also a hunt for the truth. a hunt for what works for you. you express yourself as you go sometimes badly, sometimes well.

you got to take both. you take the good with the bad. as my grandmother used to say. >> why disappointed? >> in the same way, 'cause there are things i wish i had done better. >> are you the kind of guy that regrets? are you able to just say -- >> i regret too much. i don't think that's necessarily -- you learn from regret. if you repeat the emotion over and over, you are flagellating yourself with self-pity. >> "savages." it is a movie that i think will inspire debate. above all, it's a cracking thriller, isn't it? >> i think hitchcock is the ultimate filmmaker in the sense, you know, the audience doesn't want the messages and the politics. they want a good time. you know, i go to the movie because i want to have a good time. i've always tried to make movies. even if the controversial subject, as you say, like "jfk." try to make it fun to sit through.

>> you are slightly recolder from the word controversial. i never saw it as a negative with you. i always thought you made these great films which inspire controversy, and that's a great thing to get people talking and analyzing. >> but that's like the greek saying, te killed the messenger. that's silly. every time i made the movie, every time it a different me that delivered, a different one. so it's not the same person all the time. i change from every movie. >> how would you like to be remembered? >> what do you think? as a filmmaker. >> i would say -- yeah, i mean -- if you could jazz it up a bit, can't you? >> that's -- >> you could write your own tombstone. >> it's a pantheon of certain filmmakers. maybe 50, 60 that just have continued to deliver through time. those people are very rare. i just am very happy to be one -- >> that simple descriptive word, filmmaker, would be enough for you?

>> dramatist if you want but that sums it up. >> nothing personal? >> he was a good citizen i hope, you know. i never participated in public office. i can't say i was a model citizen. but i -- i followed the debate as best i could. i tried to contribute as much as i could. >> there are few people in the movie business whose work i have enjoyed more than yours. i have wanted to talk to you for a long time. you have not disappointed. the movie "savages" hits thters on july 6th. it's a cracking thriller. >> thank you. >> really enjoyed it. >> very sweet of you. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you. coming up, mark wahlberg on his very naughty new movie.

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mark wahlberg fought his way off the mean streets of boston to successful music and acting career. he's more of a business man, producer and working to become a high school graduate. his new film "ted" is about a man and his teddy bear. this is not the kind of teddy bear you want to take your kids to. join me now, one of hollywood's hardest working guys, mark wahlberg, welcome back. >> how are you, sir? >> this teddy bear. >> he's a naughty fella. >> seems so sweet. he's the most disgusting bear in history.

>> my kids just do not understand why they cannot finally see one of daddy's movies. we drive through l.a. they're all over all the buses. the poster of me and the bear laughing hysterically. like, dad, it's you and a teddy bear. some of their upper classmen are like, oh, we can't wait to see "ted." looks awesome. they're really upset about it. so, i don't know. >> what do you say? you got four kids. finally daddy who's made a lot of edgy movies makes a movie about a little cuddly bear. how do you break their little hearts? and say they can't see it? >> i told them the bear has a potty mouth. there are parts of it that i would sneak and allow them to see but my wife would be very upset with me. >> there's a brilliant scene. i don't want to give too much away. a scene where the teddy bear, ted, pulls this girl, who's a checkout girl in a store. and you decide you're going to try to guess the name of this girl. let's watch this clip. >> she's a cashier. >> no way, that's awesome. what's her name? >> white trash name. guess. >> mandy. >> nope. >> marilyn? >> nope.

>> brittany. >> no. >> tiffany. >> no. >> k57bdis. >> speed round, i'm going to rattle off some names. brandy, heather. channing, brianna. amber, serena. melody, dakota, sierra. bambi, crystal, samantha. autumn, ruby, taylor. tara, tammy, lauren. charlene, chantelle. courtney, misty, jenny. krista, mindy, noel, shelby. trina, reba, cassandra. nikki, kelsey, shawna. jolene, urleen, claudia. savannah, casey, dolly. kendra, kylie. chloe, devon. emmalou, becky? >> no. >> wait, was it any one of those names with a "lynn" after it? >> yes. >> i got you. brandy lynn. >> tammy lynn. >> ah! >> now, there are a few things about that scene. one is there are so many trashy girl's names in this country, aren't there? secondly, seth macfarland, who's the genius behind this movie, he says you got this in one take. you came in, you didn't need any cue cards, no prompting. you just came in and went. is that true? >> yes. well, you're supposed to know your lines. it was the most difficult piece of dialogue to memorize because there's nothing to connect it

to. it's just 57 random names. i never thought it would make it in the movie. the big reason was if i just said it, it would take two or three minutes. i asked him, can we do it like a game show formula where i try to rattle them off as fast as possible and get them out in a timely fashion so it will actually make it in the movie? when i did it, he just absolutely loved it. we did a couple more takes after that, but i think he used the first take. >> did you get it right every time? >> yes. >> okay, how? >> a lot of practice. you know, i spent eight weeks before i started shooting reading the script out loud. i always know all my lines before we get to the set. that was the hardest piece of dialogue to memorize. >> it's extraordinary art to be able to do that. it's also incredible dedication. last time you were on the show, i got great feedback to the back-story that you bring. before you even get to making movies. but the one thing i came away from is you had in changing your

life around the work ethic you brought to everything you now do. incredibly impressive. nothing tells it better than this. seth macfarland says about what you did that single scene. he's the single most prepared human bing. it's astonishing. not much he can't do. extraordinarily versatile. always surprising. such a humble guy. he's not showy about it. o look at me, i can do this. you're not. you're not. it's an amazing thing. you can do that kind of thing in one hit. it shows proper dedication. >> well, it's your job, you know? i've worked with many actors who have been paid a lot of money. they show up and they don't know their lines. >> any names? >> yeah, plenty. i'll tell you when we stop. but it's frustrating to me because, you know, you're getting paid a lot of money. we have this amazing job. just show up and be prepared. you know? just work with russell crowe and the guy is such a pro. i mean, we had pages and pages of monologue. the guy just every single time. >> who are the best prepared? i wouldn't expect you to dish the dirt on the underprepared. who are the ones you look at and go, that's where i want to be? >> russell crowe is extremely

prepared. you know, robert duvall is, you know, the consummate professional. >> "ted" is another departure for you i guess in the range of movies you're doing. do you like that versatility? >> absolutely. i try to find something completely different. to surprise audiences. to challenge myself. nothing too out there, you know. you won't see me doing any english period pieces. although i'm starting -- >> i could see you "downtown abbey." can you do that accent? >> of course. >> be a "downtown abbey" butler for a moment. >> no, i like the dirty slang english. [ bleep] miserable [ bleep ] [ bleep ] all that. >> i don't thing you can say this on prime-time cnn. we'll just have to have a sort of slew of bleeps. >> let me apologize. >> your mother watches this. >> well, she's not going to need to now. sorry, mom. love you. but i -- you know, i would actually love the opportunity.

at the right time. i would literally go there, live there, and try to become it. i don't want to half-ass anything. excuse me. i said another bad word. i apologize. >> you've turned into ted. >> ted is a bad influence. >> unruly bear. >> he is a bad influence. at least i haven't started, you know, smoking pot but he's -- it's bad. >> the movie business is a rough-tough business. what i was struck by in recent interviews, you have's made it clear that you see yourself now as a foremost businessman. everything comes away from that. explain that to me in more detail. >> i've always been business oriented. you know, i love acting. it's my first love. i want to build a business where i can also be at home a lot more. spend a lot more time with my wife and children. and, you know, i was never the kind of actor who was, you know, just sat home and waited for all the great scripts to come to me first. i just got proactive. go out there, find material, start to develop stuff. i started finding i have a lot

of interests outside of the entertainment world. >> i would imagine the most exciting thing for your kids is the rumors of a basketball movie with justin bieber. >> the boys are into the idea. my daughter has moved on from justin bieber. she's still only 8. i think it's the whole selena gomez thing. i think that's what it is. >> i love a rival. >> yeah. >> i think he's a talented guy. the picture your talking about doing is kind of like "color of moy." with tom cruise. playing basketball and hustling people in the streets. >> i know you're good at basketball. one of your close friends has played with you for yours has said he's never beat you. when you get on the court, you turn into an animal. >> i get pretty crazy out there. but he can play, yeah. that's where we got the idea. we saw him play on tv. that clip. >> would you be the mentor? >> yes, unfortunately, yes. >> you're the paul newman? >> yes. >> you're that age, you see. you're now the old guy.

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when you look back over this amazing career, all the twists and turns, if i had the power to let you relive one moment again, what would you choose? >> i would probably choose not quitting school because that's when everything started to go downhill. the drugs and the violence. that's when all that started to happen. >> so you quit school at 13. as you said the last time we spoke, you wish you hadn't done it. that was the big regret. you have's done something about it. you've gone back. doing an online diploma. >> just starting, yeah. i was talking to my mother today. she actually read it in the newspaper that i was starting to enter my studies. she told me she got her diploma

when she was 55. it's hanging up on her wall in her house and it's one of her proudest moments. >> what did she say about you doing it? >> she's very proud me. she says it's not as easy as i think. and i know that because i look at my daughter's third grade homework. ask mommy that question. >> the kids must find this fascinating. >> they don't know that i never finished school. i never wanted to be faced with that question either. daddy, you didn't do it. now that i can do it online, it's fantastic. i've got a tutor. i'll be doing it in between takes. i will be studying, and hopefully i can get through pretty quickly. >> you do the full range of subjects. >> i got a lot of credits. because of my real-life experience. but the principal at my old school contacted me. she said, we have this new program and you can do it online. i said, i'm in. she said, are you okay with talking about it? i said sure.

i would try to encourage as many people as possible to go back -- >> what have you found you're good at and not so good at? >> i'm very good at math. i'm very good at -- >> counting money, isn't it? >> i'm very good at english. science is the worst. and social studies. so i have no key -- know nothing about science. so i'm going to start from scratch there. >> your mother must find it extraordinary, what's happened to you, doesn't she? everyone has a journey. i don't think i've seen many movie stars who have had quite the journey you've had to get to where you are today. >> she still puts me in my place though. we had a pitch meeting last week in new york. we were going to do a show about wahlburgs with her, my brother. she took the train up because she doesn't like to fly. nobody was there to pick her up from the train station. she had to walk from the train station to the a&e offices. and she was pissed. yelled at me in front of everybody. i was like, i would have gotten you a helicopter, limousine. flown you in on a jet. of course i'll take care of you. nobody told me you were coming. you're supposed to know. i said, this is the show right here. yell at me over the phone. >> you're living the life of the

"entourage" character. loved "entourage." we discussed it last time. people said to me, friends of mine, you actually have movie star friends. is that a myth or is that a reality? these guys, like leo dicaprio who you grew up with. so on. are these friends of yours? >> yeah, we're friendly. if we see each other, we'll hang out, shoot the breeze. catch up with what's going on. i don't really stay in contact with anybody, you know. i've got some of my close friends that i still work with from boston. or, you know, over the years. but i don't really have people that i, you know, they come over my house. i used to when i was younger. leo and all those guys would come over to my house every weekend and play basketball. leo and toby. their whole crew. connolly. a lot of those guys would come over and play basketball. now it's, you know, if i'm not working, i'm with my kids. >> the party guys just got really fed up. because you suddenly became an adult. >> yes. >> they weren't factoring this into the relationship. you were the lead party guy. >> i was one of them, yes. >> you were the "it's friday, we're going to vegas" guys. >> oh, it's tuesday.

we're just recovering from a monday night outing. >> was there a moment, cathartic moment, where you just woke up and went, i'm done with that? >> certainly. when i met my wife. my now wife. we started getting serious. obviously when i was going to have a child. it was like, can't be a child having a child. it's very much like "ted." when my wife and i met, i was living with five of my friends in an apartment. she was like, you know, i love you and i like your friend, don't get me wrong, but i don't want to be coming over to your apartment when there's five guys on the couch. i had to change. >> did you have a red devil on you occasionally? >> no. >> no temptation to suddenly go crazy again? >> no. >> that again shows self-control. >> i went crazy the other day. my kids and i shot our paint ball gun in the back. my two boys. that's as crazy as it gets. >> that's enough. >> yeah. >> that gives you the high you used to get from running with the gang -- >> i've given so much, you know, i would be a fool to risk -- do anything to jeopardize what i

have. >> is it because you know where you came from? >> of course. i could easily end up back there. and i think i would be respected if i went back there. but, you know, i want to keep moving forward. i'm as hungry and determined as i've ever been to succeed. >> what do you think of the political situation? the election coming in november? are you an obama man, a romney man? where are you sitting? >> i'm going to go down and pull the lever, you know. i've obviously been very supportive of president obama. and will continue to be. >> there's a sense that hollywood feels disappointed generally with him. >> yes, but, you know, he's, he's making up some ground. he's been spending a lot of time there. he just had a dinner at clooney's house. >> were you there? >> no, i was not. >> not invited? >> no, i was -- just didn't go. i was home having dinner with my kids. >> you turned down dinner with the president and george clooney?

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couldn't -- >> were you in a jacuzzi semi-naked with burt reynolds -- fun, awkward? >> a bit awkward. what an amazing performance he gave. i wish he would have won the academy award. >> is he a good guy? >> he's a great guy. he wasn't really comfortable with the fill. that was well known throughout the media and through hollywood and with the academy. by the time he started trying to turn it around to campaign for the award, i think it was a little too late. >> women who watched last time disappointedly, from my point of view, saw the difference between our two torsos as being quite alarming. how old are you? >> 41. >> so i'm not that much older than you but obviously look a lot older. given the reaction i got. they want to know how you keep in shape. >> you know, i love to work out and exercise.

i started working out and exercising when i was really young, especially when you're a 17-year-old kid and getting ready to go to the big house. i try to be as big as strong as possible. i was 5'2", 110 pounds when i went in there. >> you've now got the big house in hollywood. everyone tells me you have this incredible house. >> you should come check it out. you have the open invite right now. but i've always wanted to exercise and eat right. now with roles, whether i'm preparing for a role -- when i did "broken city" i was 165 pounds. i did the michael bay movie. i got up to 205 pounds. >> 60 pounds heavier? >> 40 pounds. >> give me the math. >> 205 minus 165. but i've always wanted to stay fit. that was a big reason why i wanted to, you know, start in the market. under l.a., a lot of people exercise. a lot of people are intimidated

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and the temperatures, they've hit record levels and are still climbing. and gaining ground on a fast-moving fire. for one family an emotional return home are what's left. >> everything is pretty much just collapsed on to the basement at this point. plus, a cnn exclusive and a very candid discussion with a man who once had it all. >> i'm sweating up in here. >> jason williams on his rise, his fall, and why he says prison saved his life. good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. i'm going to get you up to speed now. hundreds of thousands of people are spending tonight in oppressive darkness caused bay brutal heatwave and widespread power outages. crews are working overtime and they could be at it for days. trying to restore electricity in io